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Schneider Electric

Site Manager

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Schneider Electric looking for a Site Manager responsible for managing the construction of one or more sites. This role involves setting up and monitoring the overall organization of the sites in conjunction with Site Supervisors. The Site Manager must comply with all safety, quality, and technical regulations and standards in force, ensuring that works progress smoothly in alignment with costs, deadlines, and resources. Additionally, the Site Manager will report regularly to the Head of Regional Site Teams and functionally to the Operation Manager of the GCP Ops Site Works department. Responsibilities also include site record management and providing feedback at site closure.

Responsibilities:

Schedule drafting and monitoring supervision

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  • Ensure compliance with the project schedule.
  • Supervise the drafting and monitoring of site schedules in conjunction with the Site Works Coordinator, if required.

Budget management
  • Validate, with the Project Manager, the objectives, costs, deadlines, resources established when the estimate was prepared and updated when the work begins in the form of an internal contract.
  • Organize the site in compliance with the budget objectives set at the start of the project in conjunction with the Project Manager.
  • Identify opportunities for reducing expenditure.
  • Keep track of any discrepancies in expenditure with respect to the budget in the monthly report and explain them.
  • Keep the NCR monitoring and opportunity & claim folder up to date.
  • Manage the risks inherent in the site (identify them and find all the solutions required to eradicate or avoid them).

Project preparation
  • Prepare the project, before work starts on the site, in conjunction with the various departments, the GCP /Ops Operation department and Site Works Coordinator, the Project Manager: Design review,
    contract kick off meetings, site staff mobilisation, etc.
  • Prepare the budget quote for the internal contract in conjunction with the site works coordinator.
  • Define the assembly methodologies with the site works coordinator and how they can be adapted to the contractual requirements of the project.
  • Pass this work plan on to the project Site supervisors.
  • Set up the organizational structure and the offices on the site.

Project / site management
  • Comply with the site organizational requirements as defined with the Project Manager and the GCP /Ops Operation department.
  • Manage the project in conjunction with the Site supervisor(s) (in accordance with the job specifications, the contractual terms, the Assignment order, the Quality plan, the HSE plan and the operating
    procedures).
  • Accept and store the equipment and devices on site.
  • Ensure that the site organization and the work execution procedures, tests and commissioning and all the resources used on the site(s) (buildings, containers, machines, vehicles) comply with the current
    legislation and the local regulations. With respect to HSE issues, He/She relies on the HSE manager on each site.
  • Provide the Site Works Coordinator with technical support, if required.

Compliance with Quality of service/supply
  • Set up a site quality plan
  • Take all the measures required to control the products supplied by the customer and incorporated in the works and operate or ensure the operation and quality of the site(s) in accordance with the
    project operating procedures, folders and instructions received in order to comply with the Quality Management System. (NCR monitoring, etc.)
  • Understand and qualify the customer's facilities in order to propose improvement works or solutions.
  • Ensure that the monitoring, test and commissioning equipment and devices are maintained, routinely checked, calibrated, transported and delivered to the site.
    "AS BUILT" drawings
  • Ensure, in conjunction with the site and test supervisor(s), that all the operators, including the subcontractors, have updated their drawings and that when the site is finished, the site "RED MARKS"
    documents are sent to the Design Office to enable the final "AS BUILT" documents to be completed.

Interface with the Project Manager and reporting
  • In conjunction with the Site Works Coordinator, draw up the following documents and send them to the Project Manager and the GCP /Ops Operation department: monthly status report with discrepancy
    monitoring, monthly progress report, minutes of meetings, statement of damage occurring during transportation and on site, state of the equipment on arrival on site, condition of the final stocks, operating
    incident records, equipment incident records, non-conformance records, etc.

End of projects
  • At the end of the project, in conjunction with the Site Works Coordinator, prepare all the items required for the end-of-project assessment and feedback with the organization responsible for the contract
    and ensure that the annotated documents and drawings (assembly, tests, etc.) are centralized at the end of the project in order to check that they are valid before sending them to the Project Manager
    and to the customer, after approval by the Project Manager.

Compliance with HSE requirements
  • Ensure that Health and safety requirements are applied at site (Local regulatons, SE directives, customer requirements)
  • Ensure that the resources to be allocated on site, the skills, experience, accreditation level according to the nature of the work to be done are adapted.
  • Implement, manage and update site safety plan and risk assessment related. Make sure that FSRs and Sub contractors under his/her/her responsibilty apply HSE rules.
  • Perform site safety inspections..
  • Conduct periodic safety meetings and manage action plans.
  • Manage safety incidents and take immediate actions.
  • Monitor, document, track and review safety KPI.

Authority
  • According to the skills, means and authority, the site manager has overall responsibility for the EHS aspects on sites for which he/she is responsible.


  • 10 years minimum as a Site Supervisor / Commissioning Supervisor
  • Baccalaureate + 2 years of study of Electrical Engineering qualification
  • English - Fluent (C1).Other languages are a plus.
  • Flexibility & Reliability, Focus on technical details & Customer focus, Team player
  • Ability to communicate (written, verbal) in clear and synthetic manner on technical issues/topics.
  • Good Software tools literacy: MS Office (MS Project), Acrobat, AutoCAD, Outlook, Testing device software(Omicron),
  • Advanced Knowledge of Medium voltage/Low voltage equipment, Power stations and principles, The latest technologies and commissioning test principles
  • Confirmed experience or litteracy with any of Schneider Equipment for MV (Premset, MCSET, PIX), Protection Relays (SEPAM, Micom, Easergy), UPS APC Symmetra and LV Distribution panels
    (Blokset, Okken, Prisma) is advantage

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Client-provided location(s): Dubai Silicon Oasis - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Job ID: Schneider_Electric-https://careers.se.com/jobs/83648?lang=en-us
Employment Type: Full Time